Program Adherence and Effectiveness of a Commercial Nutrition Program: The Metabolic Balance Study

Table 1

Adherence to the eight basic rules of the program.

	4 weeks	3 months	6 months	1 year
Take 3 meals a day	99.0	83.3	75.0	65.4
Do not eat anything between meals for at least 5 hours	96.7	77.3	65.1	52.7
Do not eat anything after 9 p.m.	98.1	94.8	93.6	87.8
Each meal should not exceed 60 minutes	93.5	93.0	91.5	86.5
Begin every meal with the protein portion	98.1	89.0	82.7	68.9
Do not mix different types of protein in one meal	95.9	80.5	69.6	55.1
Take fruit always at the end of the meal	94.5	87.1	77.1	67.8
Drink at least the recommended quantity of water	84.0	72.8	68.6	60.0

Database: 𝑁=472; data are presented as %, the response categories “completely” and “mainly” were put together.